girls:
60 births since 1912
#5656 (1st percentile)
boys:
51.7k births since 1880
#488 (89th percentile)
overall:
51.8k births since 1880
#1057 (86th percentile)
The name Edmund is the #1,057 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 51,766 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 86.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 86.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #488 (89.4% percentile) for all time with 51,706 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,656 (1.0% percentile) for all time with 60 births since 1912.
Edmund has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1912 for girls).
The name Edmund has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Edmund reached its peak popularity in 1923, achieving the 74.5% percentile (ranked #141) with 1,011 births per million. The name was most common in 1914, with 1,159 births per million (ranked 72.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Edmund ranks #724 for boys (20.5% percentile) with 105 births per million, which is 9.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Edmund reached its peak popularity in 1926, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #602) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1912, with 9 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1979.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Edmund".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Edmund. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Edmund is pronounced as EHD-muhnd, which has 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like EH1 D M AH0 N D) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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